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AU the wo­ men wanted to see what this heroine was like, *_ AN enterprising exhibitor of a woven wire fence at the World's Fair has erected near his exhibit several lengths bt dilapidated rail fence, built of warped and splintered rails. Tbe object is to show the merits of the wire fence by contrast, and to make the object lesson more complete the rail fence is nearly overgrown with weeds. Here are the tough ironweed, the dignified mullein stalk, the pesky plantain, and the spread­ ing "pusley." Here also are the jlmson, the ragweed, the dandelion, the milkweed, and other indigenous plants of more or less renown. Tne Weed Inspector should be sent to Chicago to study this exhibit lii*THE>ABtY IN POWtR CON­ FRONT THE SITUATION. A Proposed Makeshift Intended 'to Con­ ceal the Incapacity and Pusillanimity of the Administration--Our Condition Then and Now--The Price of Wheat. THE fool seeketh to pluck the fly from the mule's hind leg, hut tbe wise man letteth the job to the low- estbidder. UNMIXED evils rarely occur. The fact that money has been tight is said tp have resulted in a great deal of sober thought. THINK of the good or evil which might have been done us by the pe# pie, whom, through mere chance, we have never known. NEW YORK Truth is in the hands of a receiver. Nothing surprising about that. Truth couldn't he ex­ pected so nay in Gotham. IT is said that cockroaches are con­ sidered sacred by Chinamen. If this is so some American restaurants must be*to them the holy of holies. THE man wno just trusts in God and has no other occupation will find out someday that God does not carry on any such a partnership business. SECRETARY HERBERT says this country ought to have a dozen such ships'as the Victoria Not if any other country has a dozen Camper- down. THE escape of several men from the cold storage fire at Jackson Park, wa3 due to their presence of mind in slid­ ing down hose pipes secured to the cornices. The progre-s of inveption in this country has not gone far in the direction of non-inflammable fire escapes. India rubber pipes proved sufficient in this instance. Canvas tubes, saturated with non-igniting liquid, are in u-e in other part3 of tbe world. There i; no reason why firemen should run greater risk in lighting fire than divers run in de­ scending into the waters to ply their trade. The diver is protected by a buoyant suit and means are provided whereby he is always sure of air to breathe. The fireman ought to be protected by a non-igniting suit, and while he cannot hope to avoid breath ing hot air, he ought to expect from invention means of escape when further struggle with flame is futile. $HERE IS no profit in dreaming aibout success or wishing for wealth. The wise man pays no attention to dreams, but utilizes every oppor­ tunity of the present. THE ••Mountains of the Moon" In Africa are reported by the natives to be inhabited by the demon Mguarms. This is the first report as to the cor­ rect name of the man in the moon. 4 YOUNG man and a young woman New York Sunday picnic have been reported as having danced them­ selves to death. It was for them a happy way of waltzing out of the world. JOHN BULL has been outshot, out­ fought, outrowed, out-borse- raced, and cow he is outswum by Yankee Jonathan. But, thanks to Albert Edward, supremacy in bacarat is still Great Britain's. A RICH strike of gold in Bull Mountain, Col., is reported, and the Pike's Peak mines are still making excellent returns, $700 worth having been taken out from one mine recently in five hours. The country will take all the gold that Colorado can pro­ duce and then, like Oliver Twist* ask for mora THE late Leland Stanford appears to have reposed a great deal of confi­ dence in the wisdom and prudence of Mrs. Stanford, who comes into posses­ sion of his millions by the terms of the will. Fortunately she is a woman who has the welfare of the Stanford university at heart, and the great millionaire's vast estate is likelv to go ultimately where it will do the most good to the world. Tt is only a few years since the little Chinese firecracker, an inch long, and a quarter of an inch in di­ ameter, was considered good enough for noise-making purposes on festive occasions. There was some firing of anvils on the Fourth of July, and oc­ casionally old brass howitzers were hauled out and discharged, fre­ quently with damage to life and limb, but the small firecracker held the place of honor. The spirit of progress, however, soon demanded something noiser. The "firecracker expanded by degrees until from a harmless little affair, which could be handled safely by small children, it became a huge cylinder packed with gunpowder, or even dynamite, with such explosive power as to he abso­ lutely dangerous to life. Then the fireworks manufacturers went a step further, and began making bombs of high explosives, to be fired out of mortars. These affairs, deadly as a six-inch shell, have come into general use at celebrations of various kinds One of tbe devilish contrivances ex­ ploded prematurely at an Italian pic­ nic in Chicago. Tbe mortar from which it was being gred flew into fragments, and the bomb itself hurled fire In every direction. Two men were instantly killed and four were seriously injured. This is not the first time that accidents have re­ sulted from the explosion of these bombs. There was a narrow escape from a panic at the Word's Fair not long before, due to the same cause. There will always be danger so long as these infernal machines are used. Is it not about time to return to the innocuous Chinese cracker, and to relegate the huge, death-dealing con­ trivance now in vogue to actual war­ fare? Is it worth while to jput hu­ man life In jeopardy that a loud noise iuay be made? INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL: It is not only a mere assertion, but is becom­ ing a matter of statistics that women are in the majority in the churches. The Gongregationalists and tbe United Presbyterians publish figures showing that the proportion between their male and female members is nearly two to one in favor of the women. This is all right for the women, but what is to become of tbe men? Will tbe women be willing to do the angel act in the next world merely for the benefit of each other? "THERE is not more than one pair of boots worn now where there used to be twenty," remarked a gentleman who was for many years engaged in the wholesale boot and shoe business. "The change commenced about 1876-77 and has grown steadily ever since. I attribute it to the experi­ ence of the war. Substantially all the soldiers wore broad-tread shoes and they were so comfortable that tbey never returned to boots. Be­ sides that, shoes were much cheaper. It was a change for the better in my judgment- ONE of the sharpest advertising schemes tbat have appeared lately is that reported to have been operated by a German publishing house. After putting a novel on the market; they caused to be printed in the leading newspapers a notice to the effect that a wealthy nobleman had said that if he could And a woman like the hamlne mmm Oid Forms of Love-Hakliig. Courting among Insects is often a very elaborate affair. A male spider will approach a female and amuse her for some time with his antics. It ! is said tbat be twirls around and around, crosses his legs, erects his body, and executes a sort of mazy dance to excite her admiration. She is a very vicious lady, and not always pleased with her love-making; sometimes he finds himself obliged to ward her off, for she has a painful mode pf showing her displeasure, and if she entirely disapproves of his at­ tentions will fall upon him and rend him into pieces. One species of spider is said to have a novel way of making love, the sexes communicating by means of a strands of web stretching from one retreat to the other--a sort of tele­ phone. so to speak. Glow worms, according to some naturalists, use their luminaries as love signals. The females of one species seat themselves amomrst the grass, while tbe males, attracting by tbe light, dance attendance around them. j Concerning fishes--the sticklebacks ' occasionally resort to harsh treat­ ment, attacking the females with j open mouths and erected spines. As i btisbands their behavior is certainly eccentric, for after the female has dc- ! posited her eggs within the nest that he has prepared for ber, her lord and master drives her away and proceeds to hatch them himself. -- Boston Globe. A Tight Place. Says the Rev. Dr. Cuyler: 1 There used to be a sharp story of a stingy millionaire in New York who was solicited to contribute toward rearing a statue to Washington. \ The miser refused with the excusfe, " 'I keep Washington always in my heart' 'Well,' replied tbeindignantsolicitor, 'I don't oeneve the father of his country ever dpt into such a tight place as that.' This Story occurs to me when I hear certain professors of religion complaiuiug that they ^do not enjoy their religion;' they have not *«i Cowardly Proposal. The only remedy for monetary evils Which Cleveland and his followers offer to the country after the Sherman silver purchase clause shall have been re­ pealed is--a commission. It is a favor­ ite British method of putting off diffi­ cult and disagreeable issues, and there­ fore, no doubt, commends itself naturally to the advocates of British free trade. But it is not the American way. Americans are not in favor of the scheme by which grave* public questions are sometimes postponed in England for years. Americans believe that public issues should be confronted in straightforward, manly fashion by the men intrusted with the manage­ ment of public affairs. A commission is a subterfuge, a screen to enable Cleveland and his aids to evade their responsibility and to confute the public mind as to the facts cf a situation which the President and his followers do not daro to face openly. Away with your cowardly commis­ sion ! Confront the situation as it must be confronted, and discharge the re­ sponsibilities you have assumed ! The American peop'e are not so easily de­ ceived. They know at a glance what tho proposal for a commission means. Thcv know that it would be but a makeshift intended to conceal the in- capac'ty and pusillanimity of an ad­ ministration that has grasped more than it cares to handle. What the people want is a remedy at the hands of the sa whose duty ii is to provide a remedy. They are weary of uncer­ tainty, and they want no exasperating delay. Prolonged uncertainty can only multiply the difficulties of the' situation and add enormously to the doubt, de­ pression, and apprehension that are helping to paralyze business. The commission proposal is a confession of incapacity far more discreditable to the Democratic party than even the perils which Democratic success have prought upon the country. People can respect bravery, even when accompa­ nied by folly. For cowardice they have nothing but contempt. The Price of Wheat. ' The farmer who reads the commer­ cial columns of his newspaper and notes from day to day the continued decline in the price of wheat, and who then turns to another pa^e and scans the news columns, teeming with an­ nouncements of the closing of work­ shops and factories, very naturally asks himself if anything has been gained by his latest attempt to reform the coun­ try's politics. In the beginning of the agitation which gave the electoral votes of a number of the Republican States of the West to the party now in power, every imaginary ill in sight was attributed to the Republican party as the party of the "plutocrats." It was denied that the law which protected the manufacturer also protected the farmer by building up a larger and stronger home market ior his products. The only effect of the party's policy that could be seen through the Alliance eye was the enrichment of the employer who risked his money, devoted his en­ ergies and employed his experience in accumulating and disposing of the products of skilled labor, for which he paid'promptly and well. At that time the Kansas farmer never dreamed that he would ever be called upon to sell his wheat at 40 cents a bushel. He believed himself, so he professed, to be the most woefully op- Eressed individual on American soil ecause he was forced to market his crop at a price that was 50 per cent, higher than he can now obtain. He turned for relief to Jerry Simpson and his followers. There was nothing that could be said by these freaks of society that did not meet with favor. No language in denunciation of the party that had made it possible for tbe majority of them to nave homes of their own was quite eevere enough to fill the measure of their hatred. And they got the change they asked for-- or at least the change which they secretly hoped for. Every newspaper quotation of the markets of the world to-day tells a story of their folly. The price of wheat is but a single point in the moral in this connection, because everv farmer from Maine to California will oe able to make the application at the door of his own granary.--Kansas City Journal. • Then and Now. Our readers can go back a little and remember the good time we had under Benjamin Harrison. Everybody was prosperous, the wage-earner had plenty of work and good wages, failures were few, collections good, factories were put up all over the country, new in­ dustries were started, old ones further developed, money was easy, the manu­ facturer could get any accommodation he wanted. Our exports grew enor* mously. European firms were prepar­ ing to ship their plants to this country, manj' actually did so. and with it all the prices of the necessities of life as well as of all products actually de­ creased. owing to the competition of our domestic manufacturers among themselves in tho very industries pro­ tected by the McKinley bill. Then the people, impelled by * some suicidal mania, voted for a change! The change is new with us. Democrats and ropullsts. Democratic denunciation of the mis­ fit Populist Governors of Western States is not likely to have much effect on the public* If some of the most stalwart of the Western common­ wealths have been handei over to the domination of a lot of irresponsible and dangerous fanatics, it is because the Democratic partv, in its anxiety to steal electoral votes from the Republi cans, combined with the forces of so­ cialism and anarchy and succeeded temporarily in wresting the govern­ ment of these States from the intelli­ gent and law abiding elements of their population. The Democrats and the Populists were firm allies before the Presidential election. It does not be­ come Democratic newspapers to turn around and assail their partners now. --New York Press. Most Assume AU Responsibility. Let it not be forgotten that we have a Democratic President, a Democratic House of Representatives, and a Demo­ cratic Senate, and that the Democratic party must, therefore, be held respons­ ible for the outcome of the extra ses­ sion of Congress. There will ba no divided responsibility. The Demo­ cratic party six months after inaugura­ tion day is to be put to the test of its fitness and capacity to govern the country.--Mail and Express. The Preacher Had Sense. A Sterling, 111., minister, Rev. David Harold Snowden, pastor of the Congre­ gational Church, in his opening prayer Sunday morning, said: "O, Lord, bless the President of the United States, ' V • K% >• stand by him in his arduous duties, bless also the Governors of the differ­ ent States, especially the* Governor of Illinois. Be a light to him in his dark­ ness, wisdom to him in his ignorance, but above all make his heart as soft as his head. Teach him that this is a government of the people, and by the people, and for the people, and that he can in nowise become tno Government and the people." SUrer and the SUver States. From the amount of noise that eoineiF out of the West one would think that teeming millions are dependent on the Government buying all the silver that is mined. But this does not appear to be the case. The following taole in­ cludes all the silver that is mined in this country, with the exception of about one thousand ounces which is "scattering'.* The table is takan from the New York Herald: <; •Ounces It States. " silvtsC" Arizona.. i,o«a, MO Colorado,..v..............•».34,347,017 Idaho 3,164,M Montana ;,......,.;...... .17,405,0W Nevada 2,244,000 New Mexloo 1,075, Utah 7,762,3 Popu­ lation. 59 6® 412,198 84,383 182,159 46,761 153,69» 207,905 ®A»Y AND MW W. Total............ „..... .57,059,858 1,093,621 These seven States combined have, according to the Des Moines Register, about one-half the population of the State of Iowa. Not all of these one million people, however, are dependent on silver. Ail of the States named have other industries, such as agriculture, grazing, and mines from gold to coal. But of course the industry of even half a million people is to t>e as tacredly protected, as far as the Government can protect it without injury to others, as the industries of the other sixty-odd millions. But after all, the question is greater than the wants of the men who are engaged in the silver-mining business. It is one of money and money supply for the whole country. There is not enough gold in the country to supply the wants of the business world with money. The country is bound to use silver for this purpose in some way or other. The coinage of silver may be temporarily stopped, but it cannot be permanently stopped. The silver which is in circulation will wear out and the demands of business increase, and the country can not long rasist the men who are opposod to a single gold standard, when among theso men are a majority of the laboring men. Let Theta Die In Peace. No wonder the Democratic members of Congress from Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois are already clam­ oring at the Pension Bureau for a stay Of the ruling of Secretary Hoke Smith in regard to veterans' pensions. When that gentleman returned from his sum­ mer junket ho discovered many alarmed and angry Congressmen of his own po­ litical faith anxious to toll him of tho trouble this wanton and unnecassary order has brought upon the Democratic party in the North. Another instance of the effect of this cruel order ap­ peared in late dispatches. An old vet­ eran of 83 is suddenly notified that his pension has been stoppod. The shock makes him a raving maniac. Nat- urallv the community in which he lives is indignant. That they burn the man in efligy who is responsible for this unfair, unpatriotic, and unnecessary order is hardly a matter of surprise. Such petty outrages are tco small for a great nation like this. The saving effected is infinitesimal. The fear, the misery, the trouble entailed are far too great. Over half the mighty host who went forth to fight the nation's battles are dead. The number in mournful march to the grave is in­ creasing each year. The pension list, like the national debt, will soon reach its highest point and melt away. In the name of decency stop this petty persecution of the weak and unfortu­ nate. Follow up the clerks who fraud­ ulently secured reratings. Expose any fraud possible. Oppose legislation that The Davsatod Sight Which Attracted All CfM on a Crowded Street. , The sidewalk was Oiled with hurry­ ing people, says the New York Times. Three peddlers stood on tbe curb, oue with shoelaces, another with candy, another with gold 1 aint. Neither looked as if he expected to sell any­ thing. Nobody paid the slightest attention to them. A man without legs came stumping over the side­ walk. People merely hurried out of his way. A man passed, dressed in outlandish garments, advertising a patent medicine. Nobody looked twice at him. An old woman whose tangled gray hairs were blown in the wind shuffled feebly along and no­ body saw her. A pair of Chinese, an Italian woman dressed as for a fete, a negro nearly seven feet iu height, a Turk swaddled in turban and baggy trousers, a drunken woman, a man with locomotor ataxia--all passed within a few minutes and nobody stopped even for a moment to look at anybody else, except the beggary and they were utterly disregarded. Then appeared from somewhere, as if out of a hole in the ground, a child about two years old, ragged and smeared as to its hands with mud and as to its face with traces of bread and molasses, besides plain dirt. Its hair was tousled aud its large blue eves were fixed straight ahead with all that sweet unconsciousness of childhood written of by poets. In its hands it carried a gray striped cat. One little ti^-t grabbed the loose skin at the nape, the other grasped it firmly over the hind quarters. Each particular leg of that cat stuck out straight and rigid; each claw showed its shining curve. Tbe cat did not appear to be uncomfortable, and the child was gloriously unconscious of everything but its own baby thoughts. The child was so young that it went unreadily, tottering down the middle of the sidewalk, with the cat held up in front of it like a drum-major's staff. There was not one hurrying wayfarer--man or woman--who did not pause and laugh. A number stopped short and followed the child as it staggered along. By the time the baby had traveled half a block it had an escort of twenty grown per­ sons besides the swarm of boys. The baby tottered along, its magnificent gravity undisturbed, and when a breathless, bareheaded woman came running and snatched up the young explorer (still holding on bravely to the cat) each per. on in the crowd looked sheepish and hurried away. * ~ WHAT A MOUSE DID A Marine Disaster. He is skipper of a coasting scooner, but he had a week off, and 4s ' "dad was laid up with rhcumatiz," he turned to and helped out on the spring ploughing. He found it an al­ together dirterent job than plough­ ing the briny. His hitch was a yoke of oxen with the old mare ahead, and this was a combination that Jie had never handled before. However, with a boy to drive, he pitched in heroi­ cally, says the Lewiston Journal. When the crash came it was a de­ moralizing one. One ox got his leg over the chain, whirled around and slipped down a side hill. The other ox Hopped over its mate with a crash, and the mare was p tiled down on her haunches and sat like Towser on a doorstep. When the captain went to the res­ cue he was kicked about ten feet by still further reduces the barriers in I one of the prostrate, struggling oxen, j-klv*« m I m t I****. a nntain mno mavii • K/ obtaining pensions, but keep your hands off the poor old veterans, ana let them die in peacs. The course Secre­ tary Smith has taken will defeat its own ends. It will swing public senti­ ment strongly in favor of the veteran, and increase the possibility of loose legislation. Democratic Harmony. The chacs that exists in the Demo­ cratic ranks on the money question is fitly illustrated by the reported inter­ views with Representatives Holmau and Oates. The Indiana appropriation pincher denounces State bank notes as beech leaves," while the untamed Bourbon leader from Alabama looks upon them as an infallible specific for the present Democratic panic. With one wing of the Democratic party clamoring for the rag baby of "the daddies," another for free silver coin­ age, another for unconditional repeal of the Sherman act, and another for the unrestricted issue of currency based upon Government bonds, it is not surprising that the country awaits ac­ tion by Congress with anxiety and dread. In putting the Democratic party in absolute control at Washing­ ton, -the people have bought a ticket fr a sort of Louisiana lottery. Profit and I^oss. If Hoke Smith's claim is true that he has saved the Government 1150,000 in three months by keeping that amount from old soldiers, the saving is an insignificant offset to the hundreds of millions lost to the people in the de­ preciation of values caused hy Demo­ cratic incompetency. Have Equal Mights. Do the silver men stop to think tha. the farmer whose wheat is selling at 40 cents a bushel has an equal right to complain with the silver miner whoso Sroauct sells for 70 cents?--Des Moines Register. That Dollar Wheat. If you see a farmer standing in a field kicking himself it is not necessary to ask what Is the matter. He voted the Democratic ticket last fall.--Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. THE < J •rjry • >..•» . Political Paragraphs. Democratic party is not the flamboyant organization it was a year ago.--Indianapolis Journal. THE number who are sorry they vot­ ed the Democratic ticket last fall is increasing at a rate which is beautiful to behold. --Globe-Democrat. AT last accounts Gen. John C. Black was still enjoying his handsome pen­ sion and an income of $10,000 to $15,000 a year besides.--Minneapolis Tribune. THE farmers never got quite so hard up under Republican rule that they were forced by low prices to feed their good No. 2 wheat to the hogs.--Kansas City Journal. Gov. BOIES' desire to retire from politics may be wholly due to the de­ cline in wheat after he had promised the farmers an increase of 30 cents.-- Iowa State Register. . WE heard nothing of Mr. Cleveland's rheumatism till after his relaxation upon Banker Benedict's yacht. But we will not be so cruel as to. put "two and two together."--Hartfort Post. IT is a significant fact that no Demo­ cratic paper nor leading Democratic statesman has attributed the critical condition of business to the operations of the McKinley tariff.--Kansas City Gazette. •%' ^ >>' - j The panic was complete, and the captain flew into the house as rap­ idly as his wind would ailow. Here's how he breathlessly sized up the diffi­ culty to da.d: "Say, the larboard ox Is on the starboard side, the main brace is bottom side upt tbe rigging is all by the board, and the old gone down stern foremost are ye going to do about It?" mare's What A Word to Parent*. Why do not fathers and motttew make the most of their own musical capabilities, iustead of .expending money year after year for lessons which their children but half learn? We frequently bear a mother ex­ patiating upon tbe aptitude, even genius, she is confident, her child possesses, but if asked, "Do you play or sing?" the answer 1% "Oh dear, not I'm absolutely Ignorant in regard to music." I am -not recommeuding tbe mother who does tbe eTeater portion of her housework and the family market­ ing. as well as mending broken heads and hearts with kisses and balsam alternately, to devote three hours a day to piano practice, or send the children into the streets to play while she "does vocalizes," or studies the sol-fa system; but even a busy wo­ man may. by the proper use of a few minutes each day, gain a rudimentary knowledge of eitheir vocal or instru­ mental music, which will not only save money, but render the work of the teacher a pleasure instead of an Irksome task.--Erato. A Simple Insecticide. Hot alum water Is tbe best insect destroyer known. Put the alum Into hot water and let it boil till it is all dissolved; then apply the solution hot with a brush to all cracks, closets, bedsteads, and other places, where any insects are found- Ants, bed­ bugs; cockroaches, and creeping things are killed by it; while it has ho danger of poisoning the family or Injuring the property. Simple Dialnftocteitt. Cut two or three good-sized onions in halves, and place them on a plate on the floor; they absorb noxious effluvia, etc., in the sick room, in an incredibly short space of time, and are greatly to be preferred to per­ fumery for the same purpose. They should be changed every six hours. To lmprcTJ Stove Polish. Stove luster,' when mixed with tur­ pentine, and applied in the usual manner, is blackcr, more glossy, and more durable than when mixed with any liquid. The turpentine prevents rust, and when put on an old rusty stove will make it look as well as now. Wood Pavements. Several promfTneat London physi­ cians have te»fled that wood pave­ ments are responsible for a new form of sore throat that has attacked a large numipr of people in that city. Bos? Community Found Time for a 6NSt Deal of Trouble Over OBMW It was a sweet June day in town. The hours was on tbe strike of 10. The people of Amsterdam avenue had breakfasted, says the New York Herald, and were gazing from the windows of the six-story flats upon the steam drill, the shovelers, the blasters, the masons, the roofers, the hodcarriers, the ironworkers, and tbe other similar characteristics of that booming neighborhood. The distant hum of the great busi­ ness city seemed to come purring among the solid rows of brownstone palaces like the sounds from asleeping kitten, anon rising above the nearer sounds of the builder. Nature appeared to smile upon busy man <and to graciously approve of his industry. The sun shone upon npt.a sintrle visible idler. Upon this scene a little Innocent* inch-and-a-quarter mouse obtruded. He h«,d come from some debriq of the morning, and, frightened by his own temerity or calculating on the gen* eral occupation to pass unnoticed, hurriedly sought to cross the road. A grocer's boy forgot his lazy gait, quickly dropped his basket and dashed after the terror of elephants and women. A driver stopped his cart and jumped down and headed the fleeing animal off. He struck wildly at him with his whip and the grocer's boy yelled witwpain. Four men at work on a new exca­ vation joined in the chase, and two shovels were smashed to fragments on the stoneS. Work on all the adjacent buildings ceased, and people came out from the stores and markets and took a hand in the scrimmage. They butted against oue another and stamped on each other's toes in attempting to put an end to his frightened mouse- ship. In the meantime the latter, so everlastingly scared that it had no wit left, ran about In a circle aud this way and that, untouched, from the sheer multiplicity of its pursuers. Getting near tne opposite curb it finally discovered the friendly grocery boy's basket, and made a break for it. So did the now frantic mob. In two seconds the walk was strewn with green peas, tomatoes, cucum­ bers and other garden truck. One man wno had no part in any of this stepped on a tomato and fell with force enough to break every bone in his body, but only spoiled a suit of clothes The srrocer himself ran out and kicked the boy for set­ ting down the basket Tbe whole neighborhood was excited and de­ moralized. The mouse got away. Evading the kicks and blows of a dozen men and twenty boys, it dashed into a cellar head first. It had found the world pretty busy, but not too busy to knock off and give a mouse a little exfercis& ILLINOIS HEWS " i'it. Our Northern Boundary Line. The northern boundary line of the United States is marked by stone cairns, iron pillars, wood pillars, earth mounds and timber po^ts. A stone cairn is 7^x8 feet; an earth mound, 7x14 feet; an iron pillar, eight feet hlsh, eight inches square at the bottom and four Inches square at the top; timber posts, five feet high and eight inches square. There are 385 of these Qiarks between the Lake of the Woods and the base of tbe Rocky Mountains. Tbat portion of the boundary which lies east and west of the lied River Valley is marked by cast-iron pillars at even mile intervals The British place one every two miles, and the United States one between every two British posts. Our pillars or markers are made in Detroit, Mich. They are hollow iron castings, tbree-eighths of an inch In thickness, In the form of a truncated pyramid, eight feet high, eight inches square at the bottom and four at the top, as before stated. They have at the top a solid pyramidal cap, and at tbe bot­ tom an octagonal flange one inch in thickness Upon the faces are cast, in letters two inches high, the in­ scriptions, "Convention of London," and October 29th, 1818." The inscriptions begin about four to six Inches above the base, and read upward. The interiors of the holloW posts are tilled with well- seasoned cedar posts, sawed to fit, and securely spiked through holes cast in the pillars for that purpose. The average weight of each pillar when completed is 85 pounds. Tbe pillars are all set four feet in the ground, with their inscription faces to the north and south, and the earth is well settled and stamped about them. For the wooden posts, well-seasoned logs are selected, and the portion above the ground painted red, to prevent swelling and shrink­ ing. These posts do very well, but the Indians cut them down for fuel, and so nothing but iron will last very long. Where the line crosses lakes, moun­ tains of stone have been built, the bases being In some places 18 feetun- der water, and tbe tops projecting eight feet above tbe lake's surface at high-water mark. In forests the line is marked by felling tbe timber a rod wide, and clearing away the under­ brush. The work of cutting through the timbered swamps was very great, but it has beeu well done, and the boundary distinctly marked by tbe Commissioners the whole distance from Michigan to Alaska,--New York Evangelist Fruit vs. Doctors. The pumelo is almost as good as ouinine for malarial troubles, and pineapple is a sure cure for sore throat Tomatoes are perfect liver regulators--they contain a very small portion Of mercury, (says the Medical World.) Oranges act on the kid­ neys very beneficially, lemons and grapes are efficacious in curing and preventing cancerous troubles. Water cresses act on the lungs and are said to be a cure for incipient consumption. They certainly have marvelous tonic power and refresh one after great fatigue. A diet of grapes as a cure-all has been proved valuable in hundreds of cases, and if taken in time, a case of jaundice din be cured by eating nothing Irnt let­ tuce and lemon juice. In the face of this, cannot one almost dispense with doctors? EN VT is an acknowledgment of the ^ fertune of ethers. ^ JacksonTUllaBs Bates Fatal WoWwr bars--Drowned ta «*ht of Stock Die of Incurable Msease. From Far and Xear. M CHARLES Fuses, a physician, at Lincoln, died at the age of 77 years. JOHN JORDAN was instantly killed at Allendale, by being struck by a lath, thrown from a saw. THE Executive Committee of the Southern Illinois Soldiers* Assocfitifllk decided at Centralia to hold its elev­ enth annual reunion at Centralia Oct* 4, 5, and 6. » , = • - • A 10-YEAR-OLD son of Blanche Un­ derwood, an actress of Springfield, wtm * instantly killed. He was playing in the street and ran to climb up on m - wagon. He fell and was ran over, f . ROBERT SMITH, a negro chargeS; with theft, was captured at T and while being taken to Springfield, manacled, jumped through a car wfct* - dow. He has been seen near Clear Lake with the handcuffs still on. ^7 THE boiler in the grist mill of Isaao Howell & Son, at Pittsburg, exploded with terrific force. The building VH badly wrecked and Isaac, the father, is reported killed. William Howell, thft son, is badly scalded and cannot re­ cover. DAN OVERSTREET killed John Gat* rett, a merchant of Exeter, about !ik»: year ago and fled to Mexico. He re­ cently returned under disguise to vistfc his family. He was recognized and ar­ rested. There are several other hfe*/ dictments against him. ^ AT Springfield, Jim and George Richardson, colored and brothers, quar­ reled over 10 cents which their mothefr wanted. George had the money, aaft proposed to give his mother a dime, whereat Jim protested. George said he would give it to her anyhow, where­ upon Jim pulled a revolver and shot him twice in the abdomen. The wounded man will die. The murderer is in jail. MANY horses, cattle, and hogs are • dying of disease in a region seyea «ar eight miles west of Albion. State Vet­ erinarian Trumbower, who inspected the animals, pronounces the niieaee malignant anthrax and incurable. He issued an address to the people of thai region, called a public meeting at Scott Station, Wayne County, mad smig- moned the State Beard of Live-Stoole Commissioners. THE Trustees of the Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb at Jacksonville have informed Gov. Altgeld that the expenditures and debts contracted by the Superintend* ent, removed by the present Trustees, were $6,594.72 in excess of the appro* priation made by the Legislator*. They also state that the sanitary .con­ dition of the building is bad, ana thai the bedding in some of the dormitories is in an unhealthy condition. , THE people of Jacksonville are again enjoying reduced rates to Chicago, but it is not known how long it will list. Meanwhile the Jacksonville South* eastern, which has been notified that it must leave its Santa Fe connection, proposes to have a through line is Chicago by some other route. The officials deny the allegations made far the Santa Fe regarding shortage), and • say they did not begin a rate war, hot that it was precipitated by their ihore powerful competitors. They claim to? be the best friends the people have had. THE 4,000 people who assembled Sat­ urday at the Piazza Bluffs Chautauqua to hear Rev. Sam Jones preach were shocked by the drowning 6i two Of their number in the Mississippi River. Melville Lamb and James Kirby, two young business men of Jersey vilie, Ml bathing about noon and were cairiiMl, by the current around the point of e bar into water beyond their depth, where they went down before the eyes of hundreds of their friends. Botlt have families. The bodies have W9k been recovered. 1 THE new jury law provides that tri|l must be by a jury in all cases tried Be­ fore justices of the peace in which the penalty is fine or imprisonment, eiespt where a jury is waived in writing by the defendant. The Attorney General' decides that this law does not apply .to proceedings to prevent the commissioa^ of crime such as a peace warrant, ( der which persons may be to jail in default of bond. THE Louisville and Nashville def at Addieville was entered by burglMS, who got only 13 cents. MRS. HANNAH LANINQ, widow ef Jacob H. Laning, died at the State In­ stitution for the Blind, Jacksonville,, of which her son-in-law, W. F. Short* is Superintendent, aged 81 years. Ia»r torment at Petersburg REPEALING laws do peal. Notwithstanding the last Legislature of that section < the law defining and limiting the powers of County Superintendents of Schools under which the Superintend­ ents may be removed by tne County Boards of Supervisors, there remains * section in the article defining the powers of County Boards to the effeet that they may remove Superintendents* which still remains in force. THE total expenditures by the Thir­ ty-eighth General Assembly were $312,829.72. The per diem, mileage, stationery, etc., of members of tae Senate were $45,728.80, and of the members of the House $137,067,301 The per diem of officers and employes of the Senate was $27,181.50, and the offi­ cers and employes of the House 136,091 There was paid employes of the As­ sembly appointed by the Secretary of State $14,691.50, and another of the heavy items of expense was printing-, which cost $24,959.59. AT Carrollton, Douglas A. Davis, * young farmer, attempted to kill his wife with a &iiu t^en ooimmiiieijL suicide. fS A YIELD cf wheat of but thirteen bushels to the acre--the smallest since 1885--is indicated in reports to the Illinois Board of Agriculture. Core and potatoes are generally serious^f damaged bv drought, and in some le» calities by insects. Oats are of inferior quality and light yield. Some farmers are feeding 50-cent wheat to hogs and realizing II per bushel. Plowing Is slow, and pastures drying up. Fruit« all kinds scarce. COL. BERRY, of Quiacy, asked the Governor to grant a reprieve in case of William J. Jamieson, under sentence to be hangei for the murderr ^ of a boy named (. harles Aaron. The Governor refused to interfere. DANIEL PALMER, a well-known fswss^* ^ er of South Muddy, Jasper Oasggr^' while guiding a traction engine UMMT • tbe road, was thrown forward by dropping of a wheel into a rui. right hand caught betweea the cog wheels, drawing bin iu ur*" arm. collar bone, shouUer and his face were crushed end tbtl rein burst**!. Peath reettUe#! tnrianfc&t •.) - J do not always re~f ing the repeal by of that section ef "i iV • .-i i • SK vt "K I'V"* -